Steve Taylor approaches Miller to make a movie out of Blue Like Jazz. They plan, plot, and find investors for it to happen.

The day before pre-production, an investor backs out. Miller announces on his blog that the movie is seemingly dead for now.

A band of fans got together and decided that this wasn’t going to stop this movie from happening. We’d heard about it, read about it, and now we were going to save it. The Blue Like Jazz Kickstarter was born, can you spot me in the video?

Ten days later the Kickstarter campaign passes its $125k minimum to fund the movie. We did it. Blue Like Jazz was to be the first major release American movie to be crowd sourced, and I, along with quite a few others, was now an executive producer with my name in the credits! The campaign continued to raise money the next 20 days which helped afford better production. Taylor and Miller were stunned at how quickly this happened and got back to work on it immediately.